OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

[Carroll, Barry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aahz [mailto:aahz at pythoncraft.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:29 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)
> 
> In article <mailman.2917.1169243036.32031.python-list at python.org>,
> Carroll, Barry <Barry.Carroll at psc.com> wrote:
> >
> >Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that
> >mandates against top-posting.  This is not sarcasm; I would really
like
> >to see it.  
<<snip>>
> 
> Funny, I've been on Usenet for more than fifteen years, continuously
> (and long-windedly -- but that's another matter) and I've never seen a
> Usenet group where top-posting was standard.  Anyway, here's a good
> resource:
> 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html
> --
> Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>
> http://www.pythoncraft.com/
> 
> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html

My thanks to Aahz and the others who responded.  I also did some
Googling on my own.  I found out that top-posting is the norm in the
e-mail world.  Bottom- and inline-posting are the norm in the newsgroup
world.  

So I concede the point, and I'm bottom-posting like a good citizen.  

Regards,
 
Barry
barry.carroll at psc.com
541-302-1107
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